(sports) A rule that ends a one-sided contest prior to its natural conclusion.

Alternative spelling of mercy killing / (sports) In sports, a premature ending of a one-sided game or contest due to a mercy rule.

(sports) present participle of mercy-kill

Active euthanasia.

To show mercy or compassion; to stop inflicting punishment or a barrage.

(Judaism, Christianity) The lid of the Ark of the Covenant, on which God is said to have been enthroned; taken to represent the throne in heaven.

(UK) A minced oath for "Lord have mercy".

(idiomatic, colloquial, euphemistic) An especially mild oath.

plural of mercy killer

a type of mercy killer, a caregiver who is a serial killer, and who practices mercy killing on both the willing and unwilling, knowing and unknowing, dependent only on the killer's sense of a patient's level of suffering from their illness.